Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with most Harvard tours, the guides injected a sprinkling of architectural trivia: they pointed out rarely noticed crosses in the wrought iron of Johnston Gate and the brickwork of Matthews Hall...
...play's climactic scene, in which the three women "give birth," with unexpected results, illustrates this central flaw. Over wrought and suffused with vague religious symbolism, the birth scene simply fails to deliver the promised moment of redemptive "magic...
...novel resolutely refuses to describe the actual techniques of its doctor, while film makers feel the need to explain to their audience how this miracle is wrought. This is not only a necessity for the visual medium of film, but an indication that as we move closer to Frankenstein's work in modern science, such unspeakable horrors become everyday occurences. The rebirth of tissue, while still contraversial, is conceiveable in our time, and we are certainly interested to hear how it might be realized...
However isolated us Harvardians may feel from the outside world, the thoughts and opinions pervading larger American society seep through the Yard's wrought-iron gates and into our minds...
...vast corpus of literature that decries the evils of multiculturalism, these books are sometimes useful. But often, they are so clumsily argued and poorly-wrought you would think the author didn't spend too much time reading the canon he so adamantly defends. Traditionalists are sometimes the most ignorant of tradition...